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Government Former State Scientist Calls on Ireland to Push for Renationalisation of EU Waters
10th February 2021
Ireland is due to bear the brunt of a return of EU quotas to Britain, at a 15 per cent overall reduction in Irish quotas
The Government’s soft-touch approach on access to Rockall’s fishing waters for Irish boats is “totally unacceptable”, a former state marine scientist has said.
As
Times.ie reports today, Dr Peter Tyndall has also called on the government to push for a renationalisation of European waters to allow coastal states greater access to their own fish stocks.
He said the EU could still handle the management of shared and migratory stocks under a “more honest” Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
Industry bosses have told MPs that the UK is in denial about the scale of the problem facing seafood and other exporters to the EU THE UK Government has been accused of being in denial about the scale of the problem facing businesses exporting to Europe. The heads of Scottish business groups in the food and drinks industry told MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster that the biggest problem facing exporters is not paperwork or IT issues, but the denial of the UK Government to accept the scale of the problem. James Withers, chief executive at Scottish Food and Drink, told the committee that pleas for a grace period on post-Brexit trading arrangements “fell on deaf ears”.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing
The Scottish government has announced a new funding package to help beleaguered producers in the seafood sector. The £7.75m funding package is targeted at shellfish catchers and producers, ports and harbours and the Fisherman’s Mission, which provides welfare for people in the industry.
The package has been introduced in response to the twin challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the difficulties many exporters have faced following the end of the Brexit transition period.
The initiative includes £6.45m for the Seafood Producers’ Resilience Fund, which will provide support to eligible shellfish catchers and producers, in addition to trout farmers who have faced issues exporting to the EU and have lost access to domestic food markets as a result of the pandemic.